[patch/doc] Tweak "info inferiors" output.

Stan Shebs stan@codesourcery.com
Mon Aug 17 20:12:00 GMT 2009


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:52:46 -0600
>>
>>     
>>>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>>>>               
>> Eli> Let me turn the table around and ask you how about if we remove the
>> Eli> column headers from "info inferiors" display, like with "info
>> Eli> threads"?
>>
>> Please don't.  The column headers provide actually useful information to
>> the user.  It is a bug that info threads doesn't have them.
>>     
>
> Fair enough, but then please suggest useful headers for these two
> displays.
>   
I think "ID" for the first column is fine, and maybe just "Description" 
for the second.  I don't think we require targets to promise uniqueness 
for their own info,  and the column headers are just hints, not complete 
documentation on what one might expect to see in the column; so it 
should be something a little vague and generic.

We alway change it later if user feedback is negative.

Stan



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